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[News] Checkpoint: Koizumi, Pokemon, Sinners, Pirates

The “politics x mahjong action” manga Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku: The Legend of Koizumi has been re-elected for a new term. Its second part will begin serialization this spring, in the Kindai Mahjong magazine. Meanwhile, the first part of Hideki (…) For more click here

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Live Action Mainichi Kaasan Movie Announced

44-year-old actress Kyoko Koizumi and her ex-husband 43-year-old Masatoshi Nagase will star in a live action feature film based on four volumes of Rieko Saibara’s autobiographical domestic comedy manga series Mainichi Kaasan (Everyday Mother). Weekly installments of the humorous manga story about Saibara’s daily life raising her two children have been published in the Mainichi [...]

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KyonKyon, Nagase Reunited for Mainichi Kaasan

Saibara Rieko’s popular manga strip “Mainichi Kaasan” is to be adapted for the big screen, it was announced yesterday. Whoever did the casting pulled off a PR coup because the leading roles of a married couple will be played by actress Koizumi Kyoko (44, photo left) and actor Nagase Masatoshi (43), who divorced in 2004. [...]

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Prime minister’s son struggles in Japan election

YOKOSUKA, Japan – Nearly any other year, Shinjiro Koizumi could safely assume he’d win election to Japan’s parliament. After all, this seaside district just south of Tokyo has been called the “Koizumi Kingdom.” His father, a popular prime minister, held the seat for years, as did his grandfather and great-grandfather. But this is not a [...]

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